Beginning Your
Recovery

What to Hang on to

If you are in real trouble – if you are addicted to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, food, sex, worry, resentment, lying, depression, or anxiety – if you want to recover, and if you are willing to accept and act on suggestions from people who themselves have recovered – the outlook for you is good.

There is a way out

Do not let anybody tell you that recovery from addiction is impossible, or unusual. Hundreds of thousands of addicts have recovered – fully, beautifully, and permanently.

The people who clutter up the addictive scene and make it seem like a big deal are the addicts (all of us at one stage of the game) who do not really want to recover and who are still horsing around with the situation and mainly playing games. When you reach the point of wanting to recover and become willing to do what recovered addicts tell you to do, the battle is more than half won. (continued)